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Projects with the Seaside

Jen Green · PowerKids Press
Format: Hardcover

Combine learning about the sea with arts, crafts, and even baking! This title has an array of fun projects that readers will want to try out themselves. As they get hands on with fun crafts such as making shell-shaped cookies, they will learn fascinating tidbits about the ocean, and the wildlife...
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A Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket

Deborah Hopkinson · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

From an award-winning author of historical fiction comes a story of survival, crime, adventure, and horses in the streets of 19th century New York City.Eleven-year-old Rocco is an Italian immigrant who finds himself alone in New York City after he's sold to a padrone by his poverty-stricken...
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Going Wild

Lisa Mcmann · Harper
Pages: 375
Format: Print book

Spider-Man meets Animorphs in this thrilling new middle grade series from Lisa McMann, New York Times bestselling author of the Unwanteds series. Newbery Medal-winning author Katherine Applegate calls Going Wild "gripping, action-packed, and filled with humor and heart."Charlie...
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Helicopters

Rebecca Pettiford · Bellwether Media
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Helicopters are among the most mission-oriented machines. They often get their rotors spinning to pick up a sick or injured person, to a military zone, or to help with a wildfire. In this book, helicopters lift off, spin, and land for early readers.
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Ranger Rick Kids' Guide to Fishing: The young angler's guide to catching more and bigger fish

WALTER FOSTER JR. CREATIVE TEAM. · Walter Foster Jr
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

If you're like most young anglers, you don't care what kind of fish you catch as long as you get something. After all, while it's fun just to be outside spending time away from home (chores) and school (tests) , fishing is the most fun when you catch fish. By reading Ranger...
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A Growing Suspicion: A Rebecca Mystery

Jacqueline Dembar Greene · American Girl Publishing Inc
Pages: 165
Format: Paperback

Rebecca and Ana are spending spring vacation volunteering at a Japanese garden in Brooklyn. Rebecca is enchanted by the lush landscape of ferns and waterfalls, the exotic orchids, and the gardener's beautiful wife. Yet everything Rebecca does there turns out wrong. Someone seems determined...
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Stingrays

Rebecca Pettiford · Bellwether Media
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

Did you know stingray babies are called pups? As soon as pups are born, they are ready to survive on their own! Once they are adults, they will feed on shrimp and clams. They often hide from predators, but they may also use their tail to inject poison. Discover more about stingrays in this...
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Jungle Worlds

Ellen Labrecque · Read Me!
Format: Paperback

Read this book to learn about one of Earth's last frontiers: mysterious jungles. Learn about the extreme  weather, hidden landforms, and unusual living things found in this habitat.
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Minecraft: Construction Handbook

Matthew Needler · Scholastic
Pages: 87
Format: Print book

Revised edition with the most up to date stats, info, and sixteen pages of brand-new material! You can make theme parks with incredible waterslide rides, or entire pirate coves complete with galleons! Is there nothing that can't be achieved in Minecraft? Here the experts talk you through...
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Momotaro Xander and the Lost Island of Monsters

Margaret Dilloway · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 309
Format: Print book

Xander Miyamoto would rather do almost anything than listen to his sixth grade teacher, Mr. Stedman, drone on about weather disasters happening around the globe. If Xander could do stuff he's good at instead, like draw comics and create computer programs, and if Lovey would stop harassing...
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Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention

Barb Rosenstock · Calkins Creek
Format: Hardcover

Every inventor has to start somewhere, and one of the greatest innovators in our history was no exception. Ben Franklin developed his first invention while doing what he loved best: swimming! Ben's Big Splash is the story of Franklin's first invention, his journey through the scientific...
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Rory the Dinosaur Wants a Pet

Liz Climo · Little
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

When Rory meets his friend Sheldon's pet crab, he realizes he wants a pet of his own. He searches high and low--from tree tops to sand pits--for a creature to love. It's at the end of a long day, when Rory least expects it, that he meets George. Comic artist Liz Climo celebrates the bond...
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Makoons

Louise Erdrich · HarperCollins
Pages: 156
Format: Hardcover

In the sequel to Chickadee, acclaimed author Louise Erdrich continues her award-winning Birchbark House series with the story of an Ojibwe family in nineteenth-century America.Named for the Ojibwe word for little bear, Makoons and his twin, Chickadee, have traveled with their family to the Great...
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Goosebumps Most Wanted Special Edition #2: The 12 Screams of Christmas

R.L. Stine · Scholastic Paperbacks

The infamous, Most Wanted Goosebumps characters are out on the loose and after you. For the first time ever, it's a Goosebumps Christmas!Kate Welles doesn't want to be special. She just wants to play the lead in her school's Christmas play. Her annoying "friend" Courtney...
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Beautiful Blue World

Suzanne M LaFleur · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Beautiful Blue World is a thrilling and moving story of children who become the key to winning a war. Sofarende is at war. For twelve-year-old Mathilde, it means food shortages, feuding neighbors, and bombings. Even so, as long as she and her best friend, Megs, are together, they'll...
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